The final rankings for
all comics and
trade paperbacks during the year appear below. Diamond
reported these issues without indexes allowing actual sales estimates
to be calculated. You can find the first-month sales for these issues
in the monthly charts;
click one of the months above or use the search tool at the top of the
page to find the specific issue. But note that those monthly numbers do
not include reorders for the entire year; the rankings below do take
the entire year's sales into account.

Civil
War's ending give comics a February almost as strong as
its January. Captain
America #25, featuring the character's death, helped
Marvel account than half of the units and dollars represented by
Diamond's Top 300 Comic Books for the first time in years in March.

In April, the Civil War trade paperback
releases boosted Diamond's Top 100 trades above $5 million for just the
second time; in May, trade paperbacks topped $6 million for the first
time. In June, World War
Hulk helped push the direct sales market to a 10%
year-to-date gain versus the first six months of 2006.

In July, Thor #1
gave Marvel
its best month in the unit sales category since 1996. The midlist
pushed deep in September, with the 300th place comic book selling more
than 4,000 copies — resulting in the best month then to date
in the Diamond Exclusive Era for Overall Sales, Top 300 Comics Dollar
Sales, andTop Comics Puls Top Trades. The average cost per comic book
in the Top 300 also set a record high.

Ultimates 3 #1 helped
finish off 2007 on a positive note; the year was up 9% overall from
2006 and the seventh straght year of growth for the industry.